FW: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 30

[John Stegall]

                            does that mean that the king and his men were
too ho to trot ?

wolfie !
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 in service to the kingdom  and 
the one from whom all blessings flow


> [Original Message]
> From: PBW <PBW_RN at ev1.net>
> To: Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc.
<loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
> Date: 01/30/2006 6:40:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 30
>
> > 1393 Aimery Poitiers French nobleman, burned at royal ball
> > 1393 Yvain son of Earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
>
> Remind me never to attend a royal ball!  Of course this got me to
wondering 
> so I just had to look it up...
>
> http://www.answers.com/topic/masquerade-ball-1
>
> A famous mascarade that was long remembered as the Bal des Ardents
("Burning 
> Men's Ball") was intended as a Bal des sauvages ("Wild Men's Ball") a 
> costumed ball (morisco). It was in celebration of the marriage of a 
> lady-in-waiting of Charles VI of France's queen in Paris on January 28, 
> 1393. The King and five courtiers dressed as wildmen of the woods 
> (woodwoses), with costumes of flax and pitch. When they came too close to
a 
> torch, the dancers caught fire. (This episode was later adapted into
Edgar 
> Allan Poe's short story "Hop Frog".) Such costumed dances were a special 
> luxury of the ducal court of Burgundy.
>
> Magdalia/Pook 
>
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